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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 3007271" data-attributes="member: 4910">Identify a dragon's strengths:Great arial mobility.Savage in melee.High natural armor.Large size.Powerful senses.Low/Moderate spellcasting ability.Good saves; may be spell resistant.Powerful breath weapon (of an unknown energy type and formation).Usually one type of energy resistance.In response, you want to look at ways to mitigate or counteract those strengths.  As the saying goes, strategy is the accumulation of advantages against your opponent, tactics are the deployment of those advantages.  First things first:  you want to do everything in your power to restrict that dragon's mobility - if she can leave at any time she chooses, she will win.  Tight terrain, thick canopy, underground, something.  Check with your DM if he'll allow you to use tanglefoot bags to affect the dragon's wings in anyway.  Don't worry too much about the dragon's spellcasting; chances are at that level it'll be primarily for buffs and shouldn't be too difficult to dispel (though bear in mind she can try to dispel you as well).  You don't have any information about the dragon's energy type; do what information gathering you can, failing that break out Mass Resist Energy after you engage.  Have your spellcasters focus on heavy enfeebling spells or non-elemental damaging spells rather than elemental damage.  Debuffing the dragon until she glows will also help mitigate some of her melee ability.  Slow and Bestow Curse are to cherries, right off the bat, as is Ray of Enfeeblement or anything that doesn't allow a save.Try not to bunch up during the fight - the more targets she can hit with a single breath weapon the worse off it is for you.  At the same time, try to present the dragon with ablative targets - summoned monsters (though mind the fear), undead, or the like.  If you've got access to the Planar Binding or Planar Ally spells now would be a good time to use them.Don't cut corners - if you've got expendible items that you've been squirreling away, put them to use.  Possibly invest in some scrolls for spells that are special purpose.Unless you're really keen on dying should things go sour, have an exit strategy.  Teleport or the like, ideally.</blockquote>

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